Wikidata:Property proposal/location of lexeme usage

Not done

Description	for lexemes which are considered regional, the main locations where the lexeme is used
Data type	Item
Domain	lexemes
Allowed values	geographical locations
Example 1	carer (L290514) → caregiver (Q553079) (British word for caregiver)
Example 2	MISSING
Example 3	MISSING
See also	location of sense usage (P6084)

To be able to mark lexemes which are regional. Uziel302 (talk) 10:02, 26 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

this seems very vague Nepalicoi (talk) 18:25, 19 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I question the need for this, given the existence of location of sense usage (P6084). It would only be useful when the same regional lexeme has multiple senses, and the exact same regional distribution applies to each one of those senses. How common is that in reality? Multiple senses typically don't have identical origins. SM5POR (talk) 12:34, 9 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose caregiver (Q553079) seems like a very bad example for a location. ChristianKl ❪✉❫ 19:58, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose See SM5POR's comment. Even if a word is currently only used in one region, it may start being used elsewhere with a different sense in other regions, so it's not actually a property of the lexeme. For example, the word "cookie". That was originally used in the US to mean a variety of flat round sweet items, some of which are soft and chewy, some of which are firm and crumbly. Only the latter are biscuits in British English, so the word "cookie" has since been adopted to refer to the former. It's also now used worldwide to refer to browser cookies. - Nikki (talk) 15:46, 15 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Not done - no support for the proposal --DannyS712 (talk) 01:04, 2 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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